One problem you might find if you send all your e-mail to your phone is that you’re constantly getting the “new e-mail” notification, and that means it becomes sort of useless, and you’ll begin to ignore your inbox (again). The best solution to this is to create a set of filters for your e-mail, and [...]
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When you activated your Android phone, you had to provide a “Google Account” to sync it to. Generally, this is an @gmail.com address, but could actually be any google-provided account, for example, if you use Google Apps for your Domain, you can provide your own domain’s e-mail account and password. Once you’ve set up the [...]
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Thanks Paul and Greg for the advice on backing up my GMail account. Although fetchmail seems to work for some users, there are a couple of easier to use scripts out there. Paul pointed me at Matt Cutts’ great blog post about using the getmail script to archive GMail. Greg pointed me at libgmail which [...]
Continue Reading →There are many guides to using fetchmail to backup your gmail account, but I use Google Apps For Your Domain to host my mail. So, I needed to craft up a slightly modified version of the fetchmail commandline: $ fetchmail –ssl -p pop3 -vk –user slacy@slacy.com pop.gmail.com The funny thing is that within a few [...]
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